How was it again? Visualize it, like you allready have it now, be convinced it is real. Be thankfull, let it go and the universe will do the rest. Read the book, watched the DVD, beautifull movie "What the bleep.", both actually. Quantum Mechanics, we are the creators of our own reality. There's a mash up there, I know. But there is a resemblance between "the Secret" and "What the bleep". They both give me the idea, overall, that I'm doing something very wrong. The theory behind it is watertight though. So it must be me in the equation that does not fit right. Come on, these Steemers that are constantly on top, must use this, somehow.
"The heart always tells the truth.", it resounds in my head. Almost magical, do not know where it came from, but I reason that it must have been in those books and movies. It is part of "the Secret", it must be, it makes sence, and hardly anything does these days anymore. Think I even got some of those rituals the wrong way around, mashed it up badly. It has become a stew of words, and it tastes a bit off. Remember the time I was adviced to meditate, it's almost like visualizing. Inner peace, for goodness sakes, I got so frustrated when I did my best! And then I was told that was the least I should do, my best. And then there was this voice, every time my thoughts started to wander about time and space, it told me that it was ok. Sometimes it felt like I was about to explode.
Then I learned that you do not have to be a monk from Tibet to be able to meditate. Just find a place where you can be you, in the here and now. That's it. Worked for a while, specially in spring and summer. "Everything that manifests itself in your reality has come into excistence because of your constant thoughts." Ok, and my thoughts themselves then? How did they come about? Who or what makes them manifest themselves, my feelings? Maybe Elon Musk is right and are we ourselves SIMS, controled by non biological beings. Again I have the idea that I'm mixing up information. Maybe we are holograms in a holographic realm in the void.
Space, the final frontier
Liked to watch Star Trek movies, never cared for Star Wars, to be honest. But Star Trek became violent and dark, after the orginal creator passed away. And then Spok, gone, all my heroes dead and gone. David Bowie, still like to sing Starman, Ziggy Stardust and Space Oddity. "Let the children boogie...", echoes away in my head now. Cancer, same awefull disease that ripped many I loved out off my life, including my dad, much to soon. Sometimes I almost wished there was a Starman waiting in the sky, but then, when I look at the world. The so called adults that have become good in destruction. It's not the kids, they are color blind. They boogie, no matter what!
Hey kids are you having a fight? Did that kid hit you with a stick? Well, here is how we do it the adult way. We give everybody a knive, no let's fight each other to death! No, wait, let's polute our air, so we choke them! Polute everything, like the junkies we are! Destroy our own enviroment, yes our creation must have had that as a purpose! "Take a look at the Sailors, fighting in the dancehall, Oh man, look at them go, it's the freakiest show..." Thank you David Bowie for all those great lyrics and that beautifull music. In the meanwhile men wants to go deeper into space, at a slow pace, never getting anywhere. Maybe just to get out off this place.
But we are allready going on the fastest space ship there is, known to mankind. It has gravity build in, magnificent shielding, it is just perfect and we are on it! It spins on it own axis, at an amazing speed. Still we don't get dizzy and we don't spin off. Isn't that amazing? Part of the earth goes faster than the speed of sound around it's axis. And we are going through our solar system at a whooping 107.200 Kilometer per hour! And our Solarsystem travels at 64.320 KM/h. While the milkeyway is itself flying about at a speed of 786.133 KM/h. Now we are getting somewhere! And our species want to terra form Mars? CUT IT OUT! We can not even take care of our own planet!
"Is there life on Mars?" Why would the human race want to know, could we handle it? Or the knowledge of any different species that could excist beyond our bio spaceship. Most of us would shit their pants if they knew that these species were smarter and more evolved than us. It would scare many of us here on earth that there they might have found a way to stop war, for ever. Maybe it is as simple as surrendering to peace. But we even slaughter in the name of creation, nothing gets as crazy as that, now does it? Imagine, you've created something beautifull with love and care and it would be destroyed by some who claim to do in your name. That is mad, that is being so called adult about things.
Often it has been said to me: "Get used to it, it is just the way things go." As a child I did not understand, still don't. And then they say we should act like adults. Acting, so that's what it is, it is a made-up thing?! Madness, pure and utter madness. The real funnyfarm is called adulthood, dear reader. So what is that idiot talk about there being 'races'? We are just one human race! Our genome can be mixed, with easy, and it's even good for our survival that we mix up our gene pool as much as possible! And if we were really diferent 'races' we were not able to procreate amongst each other. Human is the race, and there are several unique features amongst us. Let's celebrate we are different, unique and still equal valued. Look at children, learn from them, culture is something we seem to get stuck into as so called adults. And while we are, we just act, and with a bad side to it.
Wonder what I'm still doing here
The price of Steem seems to have dropped quite a bit. Lot of Steemers cashing in on their big earnings. Strange, read several of those big payed typings, do not understand. And now after these cash ins a lot of Steem Backed Dollar has been flushed on the market and the price went down quick. Wonder if they'll ever know, they're in the freakiest show... The price of Bitcoin might go up. As the one of Ether. And at some point there will be exchanges for 'fiat' money, like Dollar and Euro. (Did you know that the word Dollar came from the Netherlands word: Daalder?) Now I wonder if tenthousands of these crypto fiat valuta, aka 'coins' are allowed to be exchanged by those figures. Think I'm gonna buy some Steem and Power it up.
Why am I still here. As far as I can see I am very bad at that 'create your own reality' thing of "the Secret" and "What the bleep." At least we are in a majority, here at SteemIt and the rest of the world. And maybe we can then come together as one, just for the sake of one thing: surrendering to peace.
A GNU Linux dream
Part of that is making things for free and sharing for free (yes I too am in contradiction and I get the irony). In the system though there is still often money needed just to stay alive. There's a clash there, I know. But today I've installed Lubuntu GNU Linux, the Open and Free Operating System on a kid his computer. Broke the Micro$oft chaines and gave the computer a speed boost, it became usable again. This I do for free, for everybody who wants to make the step to a free, careing and sharing humanity. Because it can be done. And maybe we can not help everybody, but everbody can help someone. Or maybe even two.
The GNU Linux ideal, the Open Source Community, Volunteers, they help me believe. And I still believe.
Peace on earth and all well being.
The main problem of "positive thinking" is the underlying belief. Let's say you expect something bad to happen but you are then told to think positive. What you'll do is this: Try to create conscious thoughts for a positive result, while in reality you'll be subconsciously bracing for impact. It's the subconscious admission of the negative outcome that overrules the conscious one. In most cases positive thinking is "I know that the bad outcome will come but let's pretend that it won't in case it might not". That's the root of the problem and why positive thinking and creating / programming one's reality doesn't work. It's due to subconscious admissions that go wrong. I've written an article on the subconscious observer which is loosely related to the same issue: https://steemit.com/subconscious/@alexgr/the-subconscious-observer-and-its-effect-on-our-life-and-human-potential
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Agree with you on the subconscious part. It is, so to type, improbable that you can 'force' your subconsious through your conscious of so called 'positive' thinking.
Have become more of a realist I guess.
Will read your item, thank you for sharing your insights.
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Yes, you can't really "force it". You can tell the outcome in advance by posting the following question to yourself: "If I look deep down and I'm honest with myself, what do I think that will happen in the X situation?" That answer is your true belief and what will manifest. What matters -in terms of manifestation- at any given point is what you secretly believe that will happen. Visualization can help because it blurs fiction and reality in the mind, and thus fiction can come closer to reality - the mind is more ready for these envisioned possibilities.
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Yes, what your deeper convictions are will determine the 'outcome', no matter what one is trying to enforce.
Visualization will set 'filters' that in effect could create a path, recognition to the subconsious, that what fits the goal.
Do not know if you are familiair with the works of Edward the Bono, but he has some very interesting and provocative ideas in line with this subject.
http://www.edwdebono.com/
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No, I'm reading it now. He kind of mentions the brain a lot - in my understanding, the brain is like a "radio" which transmits information from the non-physical mind. Still the concepts can have merit (haven't analysed them).
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Some mindboggling thoughts, that the mind is mere a transceiver. Not even storing information, but it is timelessly 'stored' in 'the essence' (Or what many know under many different names.) All that was, is and ever will be, in the now 'void'. Which is something that is hard for us to grasp. Just like 'nil' or 'zero', we name it, but do not know what void really is. But that is a different approach from the one that Edward the Bono uses.
Jelly Brain
Memory like jelly, pour water on it and it will form canals. The next time water is poured on it, the water will prefer the allready available paths. And even deepen them, so the next time water is poured on the surface it will follow the discriminating preformed path. Deepening it even more.
This then would work as a response trigger, at the same time it also acts as a filter to what 'the jelly brain' allready has in canals. When you take this theorem further you can add the factor temperature of the water as being chemical storms in the body. Or what we might recognise as 'feelings'. Hot water, analogue to intense extreme emotions, one might imagine, would have an enormous impact on the jelly surface.
And, in effect, any time new water 'experiences' are added from the outside, even cold water would follow the most dominant path formed. Even reinforcing the way information would be filtered.
As I see it, the threshold of the water temperature is not connected to good or bad, it is just about the intensity of the growth of the patterns and the affirmation. The pattern path is always 'right' because it is the most dominant one.
This concept got me to more understand things like human 'addiction'. Seeing that we, as humans, are somehow pattern hooked beings. So we probably are very bad at chaos, until we are able to fit it into patterns again. It could be considered a burden and blessing at the same time.
This interpretation of the working of the mind, helped me to quit smoking, long ago. It is in understading that they are just patterns that got interconnected with anything. They do not go away, normally, but it can be mastered by creating new, and more dominant patterns, so to type. At first this is a conscious proces, takes some visualizing too. And a warning that the original pattern is still there, but in time the other patterns will get dominant and will be prefered. (Filtering function also.)
What I miss in the analogy of the brain jelly is that after a while, untriggered braincells get less important/dominant. But this could maybe be seen as jelly moved out from the newly enforced paths will fill the previous ones, but not completely.
And in 'addiction' the 'reward' in alowing a pattern to dominate gets dumbed down in releasing chemicals that give a 'wanted' sensation. In effect meaning that it would need more water and hotter in temperature to create the same result in reward.
All of this it is still open for the mind to wander and wonder about. Anyway, a bit off topic perhaps, or a sidestep, but this is what triggered reading work of Edward de Bono for me.
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I remember that movie The secret . I really got into it for a while..visualizing...maybe it takes a few years to make it happen :)
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If one subconsciously expects that it will take time, it will. If they expect that it might not work at all, but "let's try anyway", it won't. The key is the subconscious. That's the one key piece of information that "The Secret" left out - and it's because some of these people simply don't understand tha nature of the human thought-stream which is dual and not singular.
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The subconscious is ruler in these things. There is more to it than language thinking, which makes it impression powered, experience convinced, no matter what the conscious 'thinks' language wise.
And indeed, when the subconscious is convinced it will take ages to never ever, than that is the dominant perspective, the main filter of 'truth'.
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You have a point here...every time when I have a positive attitude things do go better, and I get what I want.
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In addition, I'm strongly leaning towards TAO, the way. So, even me struggling with coherency is as it is. No matter what I would try, the Same kind of things will create my current path. Simply meaning, I cannot be any other then me being the one I am.
And there is still many things am thankfull for. As I was and will be.
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Having an open and positive attitude towards any outcome does do good. And in my own Experience it somehow seems to be in line with what I'm convinced about in my heart. Gutfeeling, subconscious, what ever it might be called.
My realistic realm is one that I do not get what I want. But line with the subject this could Mean that my deeper, most important filter, the truth of the heart, simply is not coherent with my conscious constructed wishes.
Think I should go and find that place and the here and now again...
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It takes as long as your heart is convinced it takes, if I remember correctly.
In case of my heart, never, but that's OK too! XD
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dreams come true
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Sometimes they do, sometimes I'm glad they did not
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